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RING HOLDER.

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Patented Dent 8, 1885.

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UNITED. STATES PATENT @rrrcn.

MAX EISIXG, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

RING-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 331,780, dated December 8, 1885.

Application filed June 14, 1884.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ll IAX EISING, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved RingHolder, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved device for holding rings in such a manner as to display them to the greatest advantage.

The invention consists in a ring-holding clamp made of sheet metal and having aslotted tongue,0n one end ofwhich a bowis formed, from which a bent tongue projects through the slotted tongue, and has a curved prong on its end.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure l is a cross-sectional elevation of my improved ring-holder, Showing the mannerin which it holds the rings. Fig. 2 is a plan view of one of the ring-holding clamps.

' On the front or upper surface of a plate, A, a, series of ring-holding clamps, B, are held by sorewbolts 0, passed through the clamps B and through the plate A, and having nuts D screwed on their inner ends; or the clamps can be held on the plate in any other suitable manner. The plate A can be made of any desired suitable material, and may have any desired shape. The clamps B are each formed of a strip of spring sheet metal bent to form a tapering tongue, F, provided with a longitudinal slot, G, and at the upper end of the tongue F the strip is bent to form a bow, H, through an aperture in which the bolt 0 is passed. The strip is then passed up through the upper end of the slot G, and then down over the slot throughthe lower end of the same, forming a bent tongue, E, and is then bent up toward the loop to form a curved prong, J, which rests upon the plate A. The front end of the tongue F is bent upward Serial No. 134,854. (No model.)

slightly. Preferably an enlargement, K, is formed at the bottom of the bow H, through which enlargement the bolt 0 is passed.

When the clamps are not holding rings, the ends of the tongue F and the prong J of the tongue E rest on the plate A.

If a ring, R, is to be held by a clamp, the ring is passed under the end of the tongue F, which is raised slightly, and the ring is then passed in the direction toward the loop H until it has passed beyond the end of the prong J, and is then passed in the direction from the loop H until the ring has passed over the prong J, on which it is pressed by the tongue F. The ring is thus held on the plate A at right angles to the same, as shown. If the ring is to be removed, it is moved in the direction toward the bow H until it has passed the end of the prong J, and is then forced under the prong and moved in the direction from the bow until it has passed the end of the tongue F, when it can be removed.

The rings are held securely, and can be exhibited to their best advantage, and can be placed in the clamps and removed from the same very easily and rapidly.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. Aspringclamp consisting of two tongues projecting from a how, the upper one being slotted, and the lower one having a bent middle portion projecting through the slot of the upper one and provided with a prong projecting toward the bow, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The herein-described clamp,consisting of the slotted-tongue F, having its point bent upward, the bent tongue E, having its middle portion projecting through the slot of the tongue F, and provided with the prong J, and the aperturedbow H, as set forth.

MAX EISING. Viitnesses:

OSCAR F. GUNZ, EDGAR TATE. 

